[Elsie]

We cannot wage this war in a defensive spirit. As our power and our resources are fully mobilized, we shall carry the attack against the enemy--we shall hit him and hit him again wherever and whenever we can reach him.

We must keep him far from our shores, for we intend to bring this battle to him on his own home grounds.

American armed forces must be used at any place in all the world where it seems advisable to engage the forces of the enemy. In some cases these operations will be defensive, in order to protect key positions. In other cases, these operations will be offensive, in order to strike at the common enemy, with a view to his complete encirclement and eventual total defeat.

[SunkenCiv]

The cranking of the cranks of the cranky in Iran will result in *no* retaliation (nothing of much consequence, anyway) and that will undermine support for the regime, even among its brain-dead pro-jihad supporters. The best-case scenario of the Merkel-Putin meeting will be, putting pressure on Iran to start to comply (for the very first time) with the quite-BS nuke agreement. Capping that terrorist made a lot of dominoes tip, exposed a lot of foreign vulnerabilities, and undermined diplomatic alliances which were/are against our interests.